Tune Families and Tune Histories: Melodic Resemblances in British and Irish Folk Tunes.
The internet has revolutionized public access to historical documents. It now makes it feasible to track down multiple versions of folk tunes with relative ease, at the desktop, and within attractive time frames. This paper discusses some of the online resources available, explores the implications...
| Published in: | Folk Music Journal Vol. 11; no. 5; pp. 67 - 96 |
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English Folk Dance & Song Society
2020
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| Summary: | The internet has revolutionized public access to historical documents. It now makes it feasible to track down multiple versions of folk tunes with relative ease, at the desktop, and within attractive time frames. This paper discusses some of the online resources available, explores the implications that can be derived from them, draws attention to the quantity and relevance of historically commercially published material, and questions whether some early twentieth-century assertions about folk music might be due for revision as a result. |
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